Link for Mobile Viewing There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the future of television. People are inevitably going to turn off their 42″ 1080p LCDs, get off the couch, go to the kitchen table, pop out their cellphones and watch the same stuff, live or on-demand, on their 4″ cell [...]

In the launching of their Naughty or Nice Holiday Campaign today WIND Mobile has released the results of a survey of mobile usage during the holidays. “Only half of Canadians still plan to mail holiday cards this year,” the survey found. It also “revealed that the majority of Canadians plan to do their holiday well [...]

Today Mobilicity did what most travelling Torontians were hoping they would eventually get around to doing: they debuted US and international roaming plans. The US plans seem similar to that offered from its competitor, WIND Mobile: 25c/min for US voice, compared with over $1/min on Rogers, Telus or Bell. Other details are scarce at this [...]

If any one thing stuck out as BlackBerry-specific news this week, it was OS6 finally leaking for the 9700. After running 6.0.0.344 on my 9700 for about 5 days now, I see there are some bugs that need to be squashed, but in my opinion it runs a lot better than expected. This is going to put [...]

AWS is a tough mistress. The runt of the pack, the 1700Mhz bands is seldom used and often derided as the lesser of the GSM frequencies. Indeed, because the band does not use a low frequency partner to its high counterpart like its competitors (850/900Mhz) it is difficult to gain reception inside buildings or through [...]

OtterBox, the company that makes some of the most well known and liked smartphone protective cases, has launched a charitable organization called the OtterCares Foundation. From their press release: “When Nancy Richardson, OtterCares Founder and President, first dreamed of starting a charitable foundation she wanted to create something that had a lasting positive impact on [...]

Yesterday afternoon Sean Ward and I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to the Economic Club of Canada for a luncheon hosted by Rogers Wireless, with a keynote speech from Rogers President and CEO Nadir Mohamed. He spoke in depth about “Driving Canada’s Digital Future” and the plans Rogers had in store for us [...]

Though there is still no official word from any of the said carriers, Best Buy (being well..Best Buy), has decided to let the cat out of the bag early. According to the flyer, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 will launch on Tuesday November 9th, 2010 for $149.99 on a 3 year voice and data on every [...]

For those of you who don’t already know about Kik, it’s a cross platform messaging application for iOS, Android and BlackBerry that has a 1up on text messaging. Free international messaging and sent, delivery & read confirmations are some of the popular features that Kik has to offer. Kik has been updated very frequently and since its release, it has come [...]

Within a matter of 2 weeks we have learned that not only is this device coming to Canada, but that Rogers will be one of the 3G carriers planning on selling it; needless to say everything about this device seems to be a bit…umm… rushed. If you needed further confirmation that it is coming (within [...]